Jim McElwain’s 2013 Colorado State football recruiting class reached five with a verbal commitment from Gateway High School’s Zack Golditch over the weekend.

The 6-foot-5, 260-pound offensive lineman expressed his intentions to play for the Rams to the coaching staff, joining four other players who have done so prior.

“I felt this was the best opportunity I had, and I wanted to act on it quick with what coach McElwain was talking to me about,” said Golditch, who still has yet to take an official visit to the school. “The program is great. I love their commitment toward success and creating better people to become better athletes. The whole program just seemed like something I just wanted to be a part of, because I feel they are going to be successful in the future.”

He also had received offers from Colorado, Wyoming, Air Force and Northern Colorado.

Golditch, who said his verbal was “100 percent,” played mostly at offensive tackle for the Olympians, a position he said CSU offensive line coach Derek Frazier planned to keep him at in the future. He was also the Class 5A state champion in the discus this year (with a throw of 167 feet, 11 inches), and while he wouldn’t mind throwing at CSU, his focus is on the football field.

Golditch is the third offensive lineman in the class, part of a move to increase numbers at the position. Both McElwain and Frazier said during the spring they’d like to have 20 offensive linemen on the roster (not necessarily all on scholarship) to meet the Rams’ practice needs. McElwain did an on-campus search prior to this spring’s drills to help fill the void.

“Coach Frazier is a great guy,” Golditch said. “I liked the way he always tried to keep in contact with me, and that was a really big part of it, too. They always tried to express how important I was and what they were trying to do with the program. I like his attention to detail. It’s always the little things that make the biggest difference. I think he’s a great coach, and he cares about the players. It reminds me of the coaches we have here at Gateway.”

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